Many people around the world use Google, they use Google for school, work or for entertainment. Like for example, I use Google for school. I use it for research or whenever I need help finding the answer to a question. But is using Google in our everyday lives, making us stupid? I can agree and disagree with Carr’s statements, for many reasons. The reason I agree is because I honestly feel like Google and the Internet in general is causing us to use more of the Internet and less of our brains. Which causes us to rely more on the Internet, instead of us using our knowledge and what we know. I can relate to this because I, myself use Google. I use it for my school work. I Honestly feel like I use it constantly and I don’t use my knowledge as…show more content… Like for example the way we communicate, we have phones. We don’t talk to a person face to face. We have phones to be able to communicate with others in a faster way. In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing. He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.” (Carr, 2008) Also because they would be able to receive so much information, they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.” They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.” (Carr, 2008) However Socrates wasn’t wrong, the new technology did have the effects he feared.
I feel like agree Carr’s argument about Google making us stupid, because we rely too much on the internet and we always expect it to give us the information for everything. As much as amazing this new technology is, it causes us not to use our brains and our knowledge. We depend on Google to give us every answer to every problem. So yes it may be making us stupid or it may be making us smarter, but I feel like it is better if we use less of it instead of overusing
